Published: 2020-06-29

– – – – –. Leopold Buczkowski’s Traumatographies

Piotr Sadzik Logo ORCID
Section: Explorations and Autopsies
https://doi.org/10.31261/Rana.2020.1.04

Abstract

The main aim of the article is to examine the ways in which traces of traumatic experiences manifest themselves in Leopold Buczkowski’s texts. As
I argue, the sphere of their manifestation is first of all the graphic dimension of these books, which I call “traumatographies”. In later stages of his work, the author of a novel Czarny potok [Black Current] would develop an original concept of pausing the language as the only form of adequate testimony about wartime events. Buczkowski, a witness of the Nazi extermination of Jews from Podole, would not only be one of the first European writers to pose a question about the feasibility of creating literature after the Holocaust, but would also provide one of the most radical answers, one that demands a complete redefinition of the very concept of literature.

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Sadzik, P. (2020) “– – – – –. Leopold Buczkowski’s Traumatographies”, Rana. Literatura - Doświadczenie - Tożsamość [Wound. Literature – Experience – Identity], (1), pp. 69–88. doi: 10.31261/Rana.2020.1.04.

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No. 1 (2020)
Published: 2020-08-27


eISSN: 2719-5767
Ikona DOI 10.31261/rana

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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